Lahomno () is a settlement in the
Municipality of Laško
The Municipality of Laško (; sl, Občina Laško) is a municipality in eastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Laško. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja ...
in eastern
Slovenia
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. It lies in the valley of Lahomnica Creek (also known as Lahomščica Creek), a minor left tributary of the
Savinja River east of Laško. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Savinja Statistical Region.
Name
Lahomno was first attested in written sources in 1209 and 1212–27 as ''Lachomel'' (and as ''Lochmel'' in 1280–95, and ''Lochomel'' in 1338). The name is believed to be derived from ''*Vlaxomьno selo'' (literally, 'Vlaxomъ's village'), based on a nickname for ''Vladislav''. Accentual and morphological evidence makes it unlikely that the name is connected with Slovene ''Lah'' '
Vlach
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,
Romance-language speaker'.
Mass graves
Lahomno is the site of four unmarked or
mass graves
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of executi ...
from the end of the Second World War. The Lahomščica 1 and 2 graves ( sl, Grobišče ob Lahomščici 1, 2) both lie along Lahomščica Creek and each contain the remains of one person, probably a Croatian, buried in the first half of May 1945. The first grave is located by the first tree to the right of the bridge on the path to
Marija Gradec. The second grave is located opposite the Lešnik farm and before the side road to
Harje. The Lahomščica 3 Mass Grave () lies on the left bank of Reka Creek, a tributary of the Lahomščica. It contained the remains of seven
Ustaša soldiers that were disinterred in 1990. The Lahomno No. 62 Mass Grave () lies along the road by the farm at Lahomno No. 62, by a hornbeam hedge. It contains the remains of three people.
References
External links
Lahomno on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Laško
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